chezmoi hangs if keepassxc exits with errors in open mode about chezmoi HOT 3 CLOSED

@MorphBonehunter Don't apologize. You’re providing excellent bug reports on a very subtle chain of interactions.

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+1 thank you @MorphBonehunter for your work here. Every problem that you report now is one less problem that thousands of chezmoi users will not encounter in the future. If you, as a highly-technical user, didn't report these problems early then we would be swamped with support requests from the wider user base later and would probably burn out. By reporting problems early, you are actually saving us :)

On this specific issue, it's very clearly a bug in chezmoi's current implementation. Specifically, chezmoi's interaction with keepassxc-cli currently assumes that the keepassxc.database exists. Of course, this is not a correct assumption, and there are a bunch of other problems that also might occur (e.g. the user does not enter the correct database password on their first try, an important process is killed, etc. etc.). All of these lead to keepassxc-cli not giving the prompt that chezmoi currently expects.

I suspect that the robust solution to this is to add a timeout to chezmoi's interaction with keepassxc-cli open.

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My cautious attitude comes from bad experiences with other projects, where it was obviously a burden when new issues/requests were opened. So I'm always a bit cautious with new projects... 😄

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